Research Centres

Addressing the world's challenges with transformative research

Tackling today's toughest management issues, the research centres at the Rotman School are driving innovation through daily advances in research and thought leadership. With significant corporate and institutional sponsorship, our centres make their findings available to a wide audience in both industry and academia, providing for a lively discussion that extends to the highest levels of decision making.

Capital Markets Institute

The Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management fosters a clear understanding of the challenges facing the Canadian capital markets, and the institutional tools that Canada must develop in order to convert those challenges into opportunities to be a leader among the world’s small, open capital markets.

Institute for Gender + the Economy

The Institute for Gender + the Economy at the Rotman School seeks to uncover business, career and investment opportunities in finance, business, management, entrepreneurship and the economy by promoting gender analysis in research and education. For Rotman's non-degree programs for women, explore the Initiative for Women in Business- offering professional development programs tailored for each stage of a woman's career.

Information for international applicants at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada

India Innovation Institute

The India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto is a hub for researchers across the university and around the world that aims to bring together faculty and students who are interested in how India is using innovation to transform itself across a variety of spheres - innovation in technology, manufacturing, services, processes and government.

Centre for Health Sector Strategy

Healthcare represents a huge and growing sector in all industrialized economies and is representative of the service and knowledge-oriented focus of the 21st century economy. The Centre for Healthcare Strategy brings an innovative research agenda together with world-ranked business learning to successfully raise the level of management in complex healthcare organizations.

Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness

The Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) is the locus of corporate governance research and communications at the Rotman School of Management. Our mandate is to monitor Canadian corporate governance trends and to provide guidance to firms looking to improve their board effectiveness and disclosure.

Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking

In 2002 the Rotman school made a bold move to change the face of MBA education, making Rotman a focal point for thought leadership and dialogue in business problem solving. Find out how Rotman is changing MBA education through its internal pedagogy, internationally renowned research, and ground-breaking projects.

Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity

The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity is an independent, not-for-profit organization at the Rotman School that aims to measure and monitor Ontario’s productivity compared to other provinces and US states, and to regularly share its findings in order to shape the public dialogue.

Institute for International Business

The Institute for International Business examines the competitiveness of the Canadian economy in a changing global environment. The Institute gathers the research and teaching expertise of Rotman School faculty, and disseminates their findings to Canadians and abroad. By establishing close relationships with policy advisers in government and business, the Institute ensures a two-way flow of ideas and research.

Martin Prosperity Institute

The Lloyd and Delphine Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) is the world’s leading think-tank on the role of sub-national factors – location, place and city-regions – in global economic prosperity. The MPI takes an integrated view of prosperity, looking beyond economic measures to include the importance of quality of place and the development of people’s creative potential.

BEAR

Our research centre conducts academic and field research, helps our partners accomplish behaviour change through better touchpoints and interventions, and encourages a culture of experimentation and data collection to design empirically informed business practices and evidence based policies.

Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship

The Lee-Chin Institute helps current and future business leaders integrate sustainability into business strategy and practices by developing and disseminating research, tools and curricula.

Research CentresIn Alphabetical Order

The Business of Healthcare: Brian Golden

Brian Golden is the Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy